Bought back $11.3B of its own shares, 5.8× what it paid in stock
Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks
Shares offered
Since Nov 14, 2023: 1 shelf registration.
- Jan 13, 2025 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR
Every offering filing →“may offer and sell, in each case, together or separately, under this prospectus from time to time: • shares of our common stock; shares of our preferred stock, which may be issued in one or more series; debt securities, which may be issued in one or more series; warrants to purchase debt, equity or other securities; purchase contracts to purchase shares of our common stock, shares of our preferred stock or our debt …”
S-3ASR, Jan 13, 2025 ↗
Diluted shares: 427.00M in the year to Nov 28, 2025 2025 -5.0%2024 -2.0%2023 -2.5%2022 -2.1%
Change in the diluted weighted average share count from the fiscal year before, stock splits taken out. Bars use one scale for stock pay and buybacks. Prospectuses are read from their cover page; preliminary ones are left out. Cash & buybacks, year by year → · How
Where the cash came from and where it went
FY2023 to FY2025, from the cash flow statements in the 10-Ks, added up.
Came from
| Operating cash flow | $25.4B |
| Debt raised | $4.0B |
Went to
| Capital spending | $722.0M |
| Acquisitions | $17.0M |
| Buybacks | $25.2B |
| Debt repaid | $2.0B |
| Added to cash | $1.2B |
| Other, net investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates |
$268.0M |
Each number is a line of the cash flow statement as the company tagged it. "Other, net" is what those lines do not cover (investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates); Tickdelta does not estimate it.
Buybacks, dividends and share count
| Fiscal year to | Buybacks | Dividends | Stock pay | Shares issued for cash | Diluted shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-28 | $11.3B | - | $1.9B | - | 427.00M |
| 2024-11-29 | $9.5B | - | $1.8B | - | 449.70M |
| 2023-12-01 | $4.4B | - | $1.7B | - | 459.10M |
| 2022-12-02 | $6.5B | - | $1.4B | - | 470.90M |
| 2021-12-03 | $4.0B | - | $1.1B | - | 481.00M |
From the XBRL of the 10-Ks (cash flow statement and diluted weighted average shares); each year as reported in the latest 10-K that includes it. Concepts: buybacks = PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock; sbc = ShareBasedCompensation; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.
What it paid for each share it bought back
What ADBE paid on average for each share it bought back, each fiscal year: dollars spent divided by shares bought, both from the 10-K.
| Fiscal year to | Shares bought | Spent | Average price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-29 | 17.50M | $9.6B | $547.09 | |
| 2023-12-01 | 11.50M | $4.4B | $383.83 | |
| 2022-12-02 | 15.70M | $6.5B | $417.20 | |
| 2021-12-03 | 7.20M | $4.0B | $548.61 | |
| 2020-11-27 | 8.00M | $3.0B | $381.25 | |
| 2019-11-29 | 9.90M | $2.8B | $277.78 | |
| 2018-11-30 | 8.70M | $2.0B | $235.63 | |
| 2017-12-01 | 8.20M | $1.1B | $134.15 | |
| 2016-12-02 | 10.40M | $1.1B | $103.37 | |
| 2015-11-27 | - | - | $77.38 |
Shares and dollars from the statement of shareholders' equity (the cash flow line also counts shares withheld for taxes, so it is not used). Share counts filed before a stock split are put on today's count. A year where the 10-K does not tag both numbers is left out.